Type-to-search asks for the title of every game in the list, queueing a
load for each, and launching a game whose info wasn't loaded yet then
blocked until the whole queue had drained. Search's loads are now LOW,
and launching asks at HIGH, which queues its own load rather than wait
for a pending one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Opening a .pkg now offers to install it, the way a .zip does - see the new
InstallPkgScreen, which shows what the update patches, what it'll take up
on disk (exact, since package contents aren't compressed) and where it's
going. The package's PS3-style USRDIR/CONTENT wrapping is stripped so the
files land where the PSP expects them, in PSP/GAME/<DISC_ID>.
Booting a disc then looks for PSP/GAME/<DISC_ID>/PBOOT.PBP and boots that
instead of the disc's own EBOOT, leaving the disc mounted - so the update
overrides the files it ships and the disc supplies the rest. The update's
DISC_ID has to match; a DISC_VERSION mismatch only warns, since updates do
get used with slightly different dumps in practice.
Verified against the whole corpus: every one installs, and the
digital NP* update/base-image pairs that could be assembled all boot the
patch rather than the disc's executable. That includes Super Robot Taisen
Operation Extend from a real NPUMDIMG EBOOT.PBP, which settles that
ISO.BIN.EDAT does not re-key the PBOOT - a digital title's patched EBOOT is
encrypted exactly like a UMD one. On the UMD side, the patched
LittleBigPlanet reads PATCH.ARC out of the install alongside the disc's own
archive.
The DISC_VERSION warning turns out to be load-bearing: many of the pairs
mismatch, because the dumps in circulation are later disc revisions than the
updates were built against. docs/pkg_notes.md has the numbers, and the one
thing that doesn't work - PGD-wrapped .sprx modules, which
sceKernelLoadModuleNpDrm can't load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>